Echo Park

Echo Park is a densely-populated neighborhood of Central Los Angeles. The town has a diverse population of 43,832 people, with 64% being Latinos, 18.8% Asians, 12.9% whites, 2% African-Americans, and 2.3% others; 53% of the residents were born outside of the United States, with 41.3% coming from Mexico and 15.2% from El Salvador. Echo Park was the birthplace of the Ballas gang in the 1970s, and it used to be a center of gang activity into the 1990s. However, it had become a home to post-ironic hipsters by 2013, and it had become the largest suburb of Los Angeles.